Brandi Lindoe of Clemson Confectioneries gets ready to put filling in a macaroon in her townhouse kitchen in Clemson on Thursday.(Photo: Ken Ruinard/Independent Mail)

Lindoe studied English at Clemson for two years, and said she dropped out to pursue her (pretty sweet) passion after wrapping up the 2016 spring semester. By the end of this summer, she's looking to move Clemson Confectioneries out of her home and into a retail space in the Patrick Square development on Thomas Green Boulevard in Clemson.

Brandi Lindoe of Clemson Confectioneries looks at pieces of candy she decorates her cupcakes with at her townhouse in Clemson on Thursday.(Photo: Ken Ruinard/Independent Mail)

"I went to culinary school previously for two years, and I was just baking in my dorm because I completely missed it," Lindoe said. "Long story short, I moved in to a little town home and I converted the first floor into a little bakery."

Her cupcakes are usually about 4 inches tall — which isn't very little — and made of half cake, half icing and toppings. She said she doesn't use recipes, seeing as she's always trying to create new flavors and go with different themes, and tries to follow her intuition with each batch.

"A lot of the cupcakes can't be duplicated," Lindoe said. "I'm always thinking to myself, 'How do I make this better?'"

Each week, Lindoe spends about four days producing 1,000 cupcakes, which is the most she can store in her current space. The cupcakes sell for $4 a pop, and within three days she'll run out and have to start the process over again.

In the Patrick Square space, she'll be able to quadruple the number of cupcakes she can store — meaning she could quadruple the hours her store is open for, too.

"Things would be able to rotate quicker and nothing would ever run out. So instead of being open two days or three days a week, I would be able to be open all seven," Lindoe said. "There's no room for it to grow here — it's stuck."

Brandi Lindoe of Clemson Confectioneries picks up a macaroon in her townhouse kitchen in Clemson on Thursday.(Photo: Ken Ruinard/Independent Mail)

John Malik, a food and beverage consultant who has been acting as a mentor for Lindoe, said her business has already been doing well.

"There's always going to be a market for a $5 piece of naughtiness," Malik said. "Her business is good — it's kind of like the craft beer business."

He described Lindoe as hardworking, and said her work ethic paired with her innovative product is what makes her business so unique — especially to the Clemson area.

"Brandi probably works 15 hours a day. Oh yeah, I kid you not," Malik said. "She's doing all that stuff from scratch — it's all very labor-intensive, what she does."